The plan for today was remove some dead ash trees from a field, but Mother Nature threw a distraction at me. The distraction was this strange looking orange mushroom. I noticed a foul-smelling odor and flies landing on the mushroom.
This mushroom is Pseudocolus fusiformis, commonly known as the Stinky Squid mushroom, a member of the Stinkhorn family. The smell attracts insects, primarily flies, which disperse spores after visiting the fungus.
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